Simulation of chemical reaction dynamics on an NMR quantum computer

Quantum simulation can beat current classical computers with minimally a few tens of qubits and will likely become the first practical use of a quantum computer. One promising application of quantum simulation is to attack challenging quantum chemistry problems. Here we report an experimental demons...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2011-05
Main Authors: Lu, Dawei, Xu, Nanyang, Xu, Ruixue, Chen, Hongwei, Gong, Jiangbin, Peng, Xinhua, Du, Jiangfeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemical attack
Chemical reactions
Computer simulation
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Organic chemistry
Quantum chemistry
Quantum computers
Quantum theory
Qubits (quantum computing)
Simulation
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Summary:Quantum simulation can beat current classical computers with minimally a few tens of qubits and will likely become the first practical use of a quantum computer. One promising application of quantum simulation is to attack challenging quantum chemistry problems. Here we report an experimental demonstration that a small nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR) quantum computer is already able to simulate the dynamics of a prototype chemical reaction. The experimental results agree well with classical simulations. We conclude that the quantum simulation of chemical reaction dynamics not computable on current classical computers is feasible in the near future.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1105.4228